Labour creates tax panel to help it clamp down on avoiders

Group will advise on how to modernise HMRC after Reeves reveals plan for £5bn crackdown

Labour has appointed an expert panel to advise the party on ways to tackle tax avoidance following its plan to reap £5bn from a crackdown on tax dodgers.

The party’s shadow financial secretary, James Murray, said the independent group would also advise on how to modernise the tax authority, which has come under fire from MPs for failing to claw back an “eye-watering” amount of owed tax.